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Made famous by The Da Vince Code, what drawing depicts a nude male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square?

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The Vitruvian Man It was created by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1492. The drawing and text are sometimes called the Canon of Proportions or, less often, Proportions of Man. It is on display in the Gallerie dell’ Accademia in Venice, Italy.

Who first conceived the helicopter, which at the time was called an ornithopter because it was designed to simulate birds in flight?

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Leonardo Da Vinci

Rudolf Nureyev took citizenship of which country in 1982?

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Austria.

What nationality was painter Salvador Dali?

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Spanish

Which Iowa-born artist painted American Gothic and Spring Turning?

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Grant Wood.

Who founded the Cubism movement with Picasso?

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Braque.

What famous artist designed shirts, hats, ashtrays, stamps, brandy bottles, coat hangers, bathing suits, crystal ware, tapestries, and playing cards – among other things?

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Surrealist Salvador Dali.

What is the correct name for a painting on a wall, ceiling, or other large permanent surface?

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A mural There are many different styles and techniques. The best-known is probably fresco, which uses water soluble paints with a damp lime wash. Murals of sorts, date to prehistoric times, such as the paintings on the Caves of Lascaux in southern France, but the term became famous with the Mexican “muralista” art movement (Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, or JosE Orozco).

The painting The Scream was stolen form which city in 1994?

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Oslo.

Which Spanish Salvador was a surrealist artist?

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Dali.

FROM WHAT TYPE OF STONE IS THE “VENUS DE MILO” MADE?

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MARBLE

WHICH AMERICAN ARCHITECT – ENGINEER INVENTED GEODESIC DOME CONSTRUCTION?

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BUCKMINSTER FULLER

WHICH ARTIST PAINTED THE FAMOUS PAINTING KNOWN AS “LA GUERNICA”?

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PICASSO

WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE ARCHITECT FROM PONTEFRACT WHO DURING THE 60’S ENDED UP IN PRISON?

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JOHN POULSON

BY WHAT NAME IS THE PAINTING, “LA GIACONDA” MORE COMMONLY KNOWN?

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MONA LISA

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God. This statement by which Spanish architect captures the essence of his work that is sometimes called Organic Architecture?

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Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) His masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is one of the most visited monuments in Spain. Between 1984 and 2005 seven of his works were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO

Bistre, Sorrel and Vandyke are shades of which colour?

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Brown

In 1956 where were the Melbourne Olympic Equestrian events held?

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Stockholm

What kind of creature is the villain’s henchman, Fidget, in Disney’s Basil, The Great Mouse Detective?

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He’s a bat

Which Bronte sister lived longest?

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Charlotte.

In 1931 there were an estimated 1,000,000 to 4,000,000 people killed in one country alone in floods, can you name the country?

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China

What short-lived company did Apple, IBM and Hewlett-Packard spawn to create platform-independent software?

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Taligent.

Who did the Americans recognize as ruler of Vietnam in 1950 when the Soviets acknowledged Ho Chi Min?

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Bao Dai.

Which word, in every day use in this country, is the Tamil word for sauce?

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Curry

Who had a UK number one with “Little Things” in 2012?

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One Direction

WHAT IS THE MOST POPULAR INDOOR TOURIST ATTRACTION IN GREAT BRITAIN?

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MADAME TUSSAUDS

WHICH ARCHITECT DESIGNED THE GREAT FLORENCE CATHEDRAL DOME?

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BRUNELLESCHI

WHICH ‘AB’ IS THE ARTIST KNOWN FOR HIS BLACK AND WHITE DRAWINGS ON FANTASTIC AND EROTIC SUBJECTS?

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AUBREY BEARDSLEY

WHAT ‘W’ IS A VERY DIFFICULT BREAKDANCE MOVE THAT MIGHT GRIND THE CORN?

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WINDMILL

WHERE IS THE PRADO GALLERY?

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MADRID

WHICH ‘RA’ WAS AN 18TH CENTURY SCOTTISH ARCHITECT?

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ROBERT ADAM

Who was the first living fashion designer to be honored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

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Yves St Laurent

Who famously painted Campbell’s Soup Tins?

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Andy Warhol

What five-letter word is defined as a sculpture or painting that depicts the Virgin Mary supporting the dead Christ on her lap?

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Pieta

What name did artist Domenikos Theotok Upoulos sign on his paintings?

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El Greco, which means “the Greek”

In 1957, Pablo Picasso painted a series of 58 interpretations of which iconic art work of the Spanish master Deigo Velazquez?

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Las Meninas Luca Giordano, the influential Italian late Baroque painter, said of Las Meninas that it was, itself, the “theology of painting” and Thomas Lawrence, the English painter said that it incarnates the philosophy of art

The 1908 oil painting San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk by Claude Monet received substantial attention in 1999 as it was the focus of the plot in which John McTiernan’s remake?

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The Thomas Crown Affair

Eiffel designed the Eiffel tower – what was his first name?

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Gustave

Which artist David was born in Bradford UK?

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Hockney

What was the profession of Paul Strand (1890 – 1976)?

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Photographer

WHO INVENTED SCISSORS?

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LEONARDO DA VINCI

WHICH SON OF A NOBLEMAN, ASSOCIATED WITH THE IMPRESSIONISTS, BECAME PERMANENTLY STUNTED DURING CHILDHOOD AND GREW UP TO ILLUSTRATE SCENES OF THE MOULIN ROUGE AND OTHER LOW LIFE?

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HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

WHICH ARTISTS NAME LITERALLY MEANS (LITTLE BARREL)?

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BOTTICELLI

GRANDE AND CHICO ARE VERSIONS OF WHAT SPANISH ACTIVITY?

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FLAMENCO DANCING

WHICH GREAT GERMAN ENGRAVER AND PAINTER DECORATED THE ALTAR AT HIS HOME TOWN OF NUREMBERG?

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ALBRECHT DURER

WHAT ‘TLS’ IS THE FAMOUS PAINTING BY LEONARDO DA VINCI?

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THE LAST SUPPER

Which building would one visit at 99 Rue de Rivoli, Paris?

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Louvre

Which architect designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York?

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Roman, horseshoe and gothic are all styles of what?

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Arch

In what village was Leonardo da Vinci born?

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Vinci, in what is now Italy
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